AutoIT is capable of opening documents, editing them, and closing them in FrameMaker (by pretending to be a user driving the menus).
On 2013-11-26 11:10, Rick Quatro wrote: > > I agree with your assessment of AutoIT and add my endorsement. > However, it works in kind of a "playback mode" where the interface > steps get executed on the active document. This is good for one-off > tasks where you want to mimic what happens in the interface. With > ExtendScript/FrameScript, you work with commands that can not only > work on the active document, but on invisible documents that the > script opens, saves, and closes for you. This is advantageous if you > have a task to perform on all of the document sin a book. I would > consider AutoIT and FrameMaker scripting programs to be complementary. > > Rick > > Rick Quatro > > Carmen Publishing Inc. > > 585-366-4017 **NEW** > > rick at frameexpert.com > > *From:*framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Shmuel > Wolfson > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:10 AM > *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com > *Subject:* Re: Script to convert tables to paragraphs > > And the free editor that comes with it provides autocompletion and > context-sensitive help. > > Regards, > Shmuel Wolfson > 052-763-7133 > > On 26-Nov-13 4:27 PM, Jim Owens wrote: > > AutoIT is a powerful scripting language, and it comes with good > documentation. It's intended to act as a surrogate for a human, by > detecting screen or window activity and sending mouse or keyboard > responses, but it's also very good for general-purpose programming. > > It includes the ability to compile your AU3 program to EXE, so > that you don't have to start up the scripting environment to run > the script. > > On 2013-11-26 08:10, Shmuel Wolfson wrote: > > Attached is an AutoIt script for this. AutoIt is a free > scripting language for Windows. It's very easy to write AutoIt > scripts for easy things like typing shortcut keys. You have to > download and install AutoIt in order to run this. > > Below is the script as well, but it has to be in a text file > with a .AU3 extension in order to run it. You can see how > simple it is. And I added a lot of comments to make it easier > to understand. If you need more info, let me know. > > Maybe one day I will get into ExtendScript, but AutoIt is so > much easier and more pleasant to use that it's worth considering. > > Regards, > Shmuel Wolfson > Technical Writer > 052-763-7133 > > ; this script converts tables to text > ; find the desired table once, before running the script > > Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ; this sets the title match to be > anywhere in the window title > > Dim $max > Dim $x = 1 > > $max = InputBox("","How many tables?","10") > WinActivate(".fm") ; this activates the window that has .fm in > the title bar (which may be hidden) > WinWaitActive(".fm") > While $x <= $max > Send("^+f") ; presses CTRL+SHIFT+f to find next > Sleep(100) ; pause 100 milliseconds - you may need to > increase this time if you have a slow computer > Send("!tvc") ; presses ALT+t,v,c to convert the table to text > Sleep(100) ; pause 100 milliseconds - you may need to > increase this time if you have a slow computer > $x = $x + 1 > WEnd > > ---------------------- > > On 26-Nov-13 12:35 PM, Yves Barbion wrote: > > Hi group > > I'm looking for a script which does the following: > > > 1. Find tables with a specific table tag, for example > "graphic_table". > > 2. Convert those tables to paragraphs (row by row). > > Anyone? > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Yves Barbion > www.scripto.nu <http://www.scripto.nu> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as jowens at storm.ca. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jowens%40storm.ca > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131126/785e33ff/attachment.html>
